Torah Portion In Real Time: Vayigash
TWO LINES When we read the Bible in English, the whole story of the brothers returning to Joseph after Benjamin’s “theft” – their speech, their repentance, and then Joseph revealing his identity…
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Torah Portion In Real Time: Miketz
TWO YEARS OF DAYS At the beginning of our Torah Portion we read: at the end of two full years Pharaoh dreamed.[1] There is a slight difference when read it in Hebrew:…
Torah Portion In Real Time: Vayeshev
JACOB “SAT” IN THE LAND The last part of the book of Genesis—Joseph’s saga—begins in our new Torah Portion. It opens with the word Vayeshev (hence the name of the Portion), usually…
Torah Portion In Real Time: Vayishlach
THE CROOKED SHALL BE STRAIGHT Twenty years have passed since Jacob deceived his brother Esau and had to flee from his wrath. For twenty years, he had stayed outside the Land. The…
Torah Portion In Real Time: Vayetze
FIRST UP, THEN DOWN In our last Torah Portion, Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to take a wife from there. We all know that it happened after the story of the “stolen…
